When it comes to talking about death, we have no shortage of euphemisms. This is perhaps most famously illustrated in Monty Python’s dead parrot sketch from 1971. A pet shop worker insists to a customer that his new parrot is “not dead but resting, stunned, pining for the fjords, kippingContinue Reading
Loop wants to rebuild the world with ecological structures made of fungal mycelium. Its proof of concept? Living coffins.Continue Reading
Frame Stock Footage/Shutterstock The chance of someone being killed by space junk falling from the sky may seem ridiculously tiny. After all, nobody has yet died from such an accident, though there have been instances of injury and damage to property. But given that we are launching an increasing numberContinue Reading
Roman Zaiets/Shutterstock American Kevin Strickland was exonerated after spending 42 years in prison for being wrongfully convicted of a triple murder in November 2021. His 1978 conviction was based on mistaken identification of an eyewitness. The eyewitness later said that police pressured her into identifying Strickland, and attempted to haveContinue Reading
UK rail lines don't do well in the heat hxdyl/Shutterstock The UK’s rail service has been hit with widespread train delays and high levels of cancellations during the heatwave. The whole of the east coast line between Edinburgh and London was closed for hours on July 20 because of theContinue Reading
Scientists are turning to the world’s most extreme environments to find new ways of combating drug resistance.Continue Reading
Plants and animals have adapted to their environments—and some hope biomimicry tools will help humans do the same.Continue Reading
They are soaking up everything your say. Art_Photo/Shutterstock We often think of babies as blank canvases with little ability to learn during the first few weeks of life. But babies actually start processing language and speech incredibly early. Even while in the womb, they learn to discern voices, along withContinue Reading
After 11 people were killed and eight hospitalized by a glacier in early July, Italian scientists are asking how future tragedies can be avoided.Continue Reading
Neil Hall/EPA The UK has recorded its hottest ever temperature, passing 40℃ for the first time. But you can’t deny it had fair warning. The Met Office issued an amber weather warning six days before the heatwave and upgraded it to red three days later, enough time to trade cooling-downContinue Reading
